The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1887-10-08
Education and les worth 70 the
human Family.
AN ESSAY DELIVERED BY MRS. NJ. r.
WILSON, AT ST. JAMES TABERNACLE
SEPTEMBER % 1887.

consist mainly of literary cultur The
story of the forges ofths Cyclops, where
the thunderbolts of yore were fashioned
is supposed to adOrn elegant scholar
ship more gracefully than those stur-
dy truths which are preaching to this
generation in the wonders of the mine
in the FIRE of the furnace, in the clang
of the iron mills, and the other innu
merable industries which, more than
all other humau agencies, have made
our civilization what it is. aud are des-
tined to achieve wonders yet undreamed
of. This generation is beginning to
understand that education should not
be forever divorced from industry: that
the highest results can be reached only
when science guides the hand of labor.
Grecian children were taught to rev.
erence aud emulate the virtue OF their
ancestors. Our education forces are so
welded as to teach our children to adj
mire most that which is foreign and
fabulous and dead We insist that it
should be made an indispensable con-
dition Of graduation tn every American
college, that the student must under
stand the history Of this continent since
its discovery by the Europeans, the
origin and history of the United States,
its constitution Of government, the
struggles through which it has passed.
and the rights and duties of citizens
who are to determine its destiny and
share it's glory. At present the most
valuable gift which can be bestowed on
women or girls is something to do,
which they can do we'll and worthily
and thereby maintain themselves.
The stork is a sacred bird in Holland
aud is protected by her laws, because it
destroys those insects who would un-
dermine the dikes aud let the sea again
overwhelm the rich fields of the Meth
erlauds. Shall this government do moth
ing to foster and strengthen those edu-
cational agencies which alone can shield
the coming generation from ignorance
and vice and make it the impregnable
bulwark of liberty and law? The chill
dren of to-day will be the architects of
our country's destiny in 1900. Prom
inent among all the rest should be our
study of the wonderful history of the
human race, 10 its slow and toiIsome
march across the centuries-now buried
in ignorance, superstition, and crime:
now rising to the sublimity of herolsm,
and catching glimpse Of better des-
tiny; now turning remorsely away from
and leaving to perish, empires and civil.
izations in which it had invested its
faith and courage and boundless ener-
gy for Q thousand years. and plunging
Into the forests of Germany and Gaul
aud Britain to build for itself new en-
pires, better fitted for its new aspira-
tions; and at last, crossing three thous-
and miles of unknown sea, and building
in the wilderness of a new hemisphere
its latest and proudest monuments.
Cicero says: 'man was born for two
things and acting" IF man
lie the monarch of this world. he ought
to be conversant with the nature, oper-
atoms and possibilities of all the ele
ments of his dominion. If education
will assist him in these regards, his at
tainment of it is neral duty especially
do Young men need the assistance OF
thorough Seducatlon in treading the
path of this eveutful life. They not
only need it but their happiness de-
nands that they possess it, the question
now asked concerning an individual of
any race is this: "I' he leaned or not
learned" The reply 10 no or yes with
out any allowance for supposed disad-
vantages, if a certain man desires to
occupy a place 10 this world sommon
with all MANKIND he must possess the
requisite qualifications. What the
world need most is broad minded,
clean sounded men and women | am
OF the opinion that if education would
thus obtain without the bias Of sexual
restrictions that those great questions
that are agitating the public mind,
among the most prominent Of which Is
the Glenn bill and female suffrage,
would find an early solution Female
LAWYERS, doctors, preachers, editors and
lecturers. are held to be usurpers OF
these vocations against the veto of God.
Did this age reverence and encourage
such women, women as George Elliot,
Harriet Beecber Stowe, Merry Walker
BeIya Lockwood. Lucy Simpson, Jnha
uomn Mary Livermore and Lucy